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The Upper Room Disciplines provides an opportunity to look more deeply at scripture by offering a week of devotions by a single author on a particular theme.

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Thankfulness in All Things - October 18, 2025

October 18, 2025

My dear friend and their spouse tend to a colony of bees on their Indiana farmland and annually they harvest honey from their bees. While they sell many jars of honey...

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Thankfulness in All Things - October 17, 2025

October 17, 2025

On a cold winter day, I awakened to a house that was as cold inside as it was outside. When I went to check the thermostat, it did not register any...

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Thankfulness in All Things - October 16, 2025

October 16, 2025

I have a friend who has sojourned with alcoholism for roughly sixty years; thirty of those years my friend has celebrated being sober. This sense of sobriety has consumed our global...

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Thankfulness in All Things - October 15, 2025

October 15, 2025

Recently I was in my university office when a student frantically came in asking if I had a moment to listen. It is not out of the ordinary for students to...

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Thankfulness in All Things - October 14, 2025

October 14, 2025

Have you ever tried to put together a piece of furniture that comes in many precut pieces with tiny bags of hardware and an instruction guide full of graphics with minimal...

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Thankfulness in All Things - October 13, 2025

October 13, 2025

I’ve generally never been one for tolerating a lot of noise. While my son seems to find refuge in playing his guitar and singing boisterously at any given moment, I generally...

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A Practice for Spiritual Growth - October 12, 2025

October 12, 2025

The hymn by Brian Wren entitled “This Is the Day of New Beginnings” reminds us that each new day is an opportunity to hope for the future God makes available to...

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A Practice for Spiritual Growth - October 11, 2025

October 11, 2025

The prophet Jeremiah is a perfect example of how to resolve in one’s heart and mind that tomorrow will be different, that it will be a new day. At the time...

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A Practice for Spiritual Growth - October 10, 2025

October 10, 2025

Repentance is the fourth movement in the Examen of Ignatius. Having spent time reviewing the past day, there will certainly be things which transpired for which we feel remorse and for...

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A Practice for Spiritual Growth - October 9, 2025

October 9, 2025

The psalmist reviews a long history of both goodness and failure in the life of the chosen children of God. There is wondrous gratitude expressed (relished) because of the covenant love...

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